While the report presents interesting statistical factors and underscores the need for BDs to stay on top of compliance, beyond the nature of exhortation there is little of value in the suggested ways to improve compliance.
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Seasonally adjusted figures are calculated to minimize the statistical impact of temporary factors, such as increased hiring during the summer tourist season in Greece, for example.
They also used statistical tricks to account for factors like income and education.
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Given my analytic bent, I was intrigued that one of the strongest factors in the statistical model between peer social support and mortality was the perception of control.
Mr McFadden developed ways of modelling several types of choices, such as how many children to have. (He made time for three.) Multiple choices such as this one involve complex statistical analyses, since the factors influencing a couple to have their first child may not be the same as the ones that lead the parents of three children to have a fourth.
The statistical relationship, controlling for other factors, between state government higher education appropriations and economic growth is negative, not positive.
Statistical significance is a combination of two factors: how many patients were included in the study and how much the drug helped them.
Some of these factors can be controlled in the statistical analysis.
Apart from the statistical problems that hide inflation, there are also macroeconomic factors that have helped keep prices down despite the quantitative easing.
To select the best markets for investing, LMM analyzed the 145 Metropolitan Statistical Areas with populations over 400, 000 on a variety of factors, including historic population growth, job growth, housing price changes and the mix of jobs in an area, using data through Sept. 1.
It was more common for identical twins to both have Alzheimer's compared to non-identical, and a statistical analysis of risk rates in the groups gave the researchers their estimate of how significant genetic factors are.
Epstein commissioned a detailed statistical assessment of the correlation between Pentagon technology spending and various potential drivers in 2005, measuring which factors were most intimately linked with the rise and fall of weapons outlays all the way back to 1955.
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